Microsoft Edge Configuration (Intune)

In this post I will display how you can use Intune to configure Microsoft Edge for your users, this can automatically configure a number of Edge features. I will be using an Intune Configuration Profile to do this.

Within your Intune admin center, navigate to Devices > Configuration Profiles & click Create Profile.

In the Create a profile pane, select the following:

Platform: Windows 10 and later
Profile type: Templates
Template name: Device restrictions

Click Create.

Enter a name for your new Configuration Profile.

On the settings screen, click Add Settings.

Select the Microsoft Edge category.

I chose to configure the following settings, however there are more that you can use;

Category: Microsoft Edge

1. Automatically import another browser’s data and settings at first run
2. Browser sign-in settings
3. Enable favorites bar
4. Hide the First-run experience and splash screen
5. Set application locale
6. Set download directory
7. Show Hubs Sidebar
8. Specify custom help link

Category: Microsoft Edge > Default search provider

1. Default search provider name
2. Default search provider search URL
3. Enable the default search provider

Category: Microsoft Edge > Extensions

1. Control which extensions are installed silently

Category: Microsoft Edge > Startup, home page and new tab page

1. Action to take on startup
2. Configure the home page URL
3. Configure the new tab page URL
4. Show Home button on toolbar

Apply the following settings;

Category: Microsoft Edge

1. Enable: Automatically import another browser’s data and settings at first run – (I chose to import all supported data types from Google Chrome)
2. Enable: Browser sign-in settings – (I chose to force users to sign into the browser)
3. Enable: Enable favorites bar
4. Enable: Hide the First-run experience and splash screen
5. Enable: Set application locale – (I chose to use ‘en-gb’ as the locale)
6. Enable: Set download directory – (I chose to redirect my users’ download folder to this location: ‘C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Downloads’)
7. Disable: Show Hubs Sidebar
8. Enable: Specify custom help link – (Here you can specify a help URL for your users, I chose to use the IT Service Desk URL)

Category: Microsoft Edge > Default search provider

1. Enable: Default search provider name – (I chose to use the name ‘Google’)
2. Enable: Default search provider search URL – (I chose to use Google search URL, you can find this by hovering over the information icon)
3. Enable: Enable the default search provider

Category: Microsoft Edge > Extensions

1. Enable: Control which extensions are installed silently – (Here you can specify the Extension ID and it will be automatically installed for your users)

Category: Microsoft Edge > Startup, home page and new tab page

1. Enable: Action to take on startup – (I chose to restore the last session)
2. Enable: Configure the home page URL – (I chose to use Google)
3. Enable: Configure the new tab page URL – (I chose to use Google)
4. Enable: Show Home button on toolbar

Click Next on the Scope tags screen.

I chose to assign this to All Devices.
Click Next.

Review your settings.

Your new Configuration Profile will then be created.

I then navigated to Devices > All Devices, selected my test VM & clicked the Sync button to force it to check in.

Outcome

Once the profile applies to your devices the setting will take effect.

• Home button displays
• Signs the user into the browser
• Side bar is hidden
• New tab page is Google
• Default search is configured as Google
• Bookmarks bar is shown

Please read my next post showing how to Configure OneDrive.

Thank you for reading.